Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Episodes
S5 E11: Alexander Alimovs, Automations.io
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Alimovs was born in a country that no longer exists. It was the USSR (or the Soviet Union), but today it's an independent country called...
S5 Bonus: Colin Chartier, Webapp.io (Formerly Layer CI)
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Chartier started making video games when he was young. He used to played Warcraft 3, which had a powerful map editor for its users. He recalls t...
S5 E10: Slater Victoroff, Indico
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Slater Victoroff has had some pretty cool hobbies over his life. Though he claims to be a weird guy, he has a well rounded set activities. He is a veg...
S5 Bonus: Jody Shapiro, Productiv
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jody Shapiro was fortunate enough to know he was going to be an engineer from a young age. He did the typical kid things, liked played with legos, and...
S5 Bonus: Ken Gavranovic, Unqork
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Gavranovic lives in the northern suburbs of Atlanta - namely Alpharetta - with his wife Heather, and two teenage daughters. As a kid, he was fasci...
S5 E9: Valerie Coffman, Swayable
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Valerie Coffman has a family in San Francisco, with 2 cats - both 18 pounds each - and 2 kids, the oldest being 3 and a half. So you could say she has...
S5 Bonus: Jay Haynes, THRV
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Haynes has always been interested in tech, just like his Dad. In 1979, his Dad bought and brought home an apple II plus. Though he was using it fo...
S5 E8: Marko Anastasov, Semaphore
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marko Anastasov has been working with computers for a long time. He grew up in former Yugoslavia in the 90's, when there was civil war, hyper infl...
S5 Bonus: Josh Millet, Criteria
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Millet's journey to tech was quite circuitous. He spent most of his 20's doing a PhD in French medieval history, with his plan being a pr...
S5 E7: Kristen Buchanan, Edify
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kristen Buchanan live in Portland, Oregon with her husband, cats and dog. She went to school for museum education, with a minor in art history - note ...
S5 Bonus: Angel Munoz, Beacon
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his early career, Angel Munoz was an investment banker, specializing in technology. He was fortunate enough to invest in the development of MP3'...
S5 E6: Braden Stenning, Raven
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Braden Stenning has always been interested in tech. His earliest memories include the desire to be an aerospace engineer - to be the guy to build the ...
S5 Bonus: Meha Agrawal, Silk & Sonder
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Meha Agrawal grew up in a beach town. Her Dad is a professor of Computer Science, and her Mom worked at the Universi...
S5 E5: Kirt Debique, SyncFloor
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kirt Debique is originally from Trinidad, off the coast of Venezuela. He came to the states to study computer engineering, at the University of Miami....
S5 Bonus: Shaun Cooley, Mapped
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun Cooley was born and raised in LA. His Mom worked at Xerox and his Dad was an auto mechanic... so needless to say, at an early age, he was pullin...
S5 E4: Hazel Savage, Musiio
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hazel Savage is originally from Northeast England. She attended university, and studied politics. She's played the guitar since she was 13, and st...
S5 Bonus: Real World AI
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can you successfully deploy AI? When AI works, it’s nothing short of brilliant, helping companies make or save tremendous amounts of money while...
S5 E3: Alex Yurkowski, ClickUp
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Yurkowski grew up in New Jersey. He has always been into tech and building things, especially in software. Like many others, it all started with ...
S5 Bonus: Eric Futoran, Embrace.io
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A multi startup founder, Eric Futoran has always focused in on being a family man. He considers himself a multi-hat wearing person, and though most en...
S5 E2: Miriam Schwab, Strattic
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Miriam Schwab is originally from Canada. She has been in Israel for 26 years, and moved there after high school to attend university. She studied Engl...
S5 Bonus: Timur Mamedov, VEED.io
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Timur Mamodev grew up in Russia, within a very loving and supportive family. His Dad was an entrepreneur, so he knew some day he wanted to do the same...
S5 E1: Abhinav Asthana, Postman
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Abhinav Asthana grew up in several small towns in the northern part of India. A couple of those towns were Basti, 150 miles from the capital. He's...
Season 5 Trailer
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello listeners... its time to embark upon Season 5 of the Code Story podcast. As we step into this journey together, you an expect to hear amazing st...
S4 Bonus: Sophy Lee, HopSkipDrive (Replay)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for und...
S4 Bonus: Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp (Replay)
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school, teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip files he could download on...
Season 4 Sign Off
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is Season 4, signing off....Thank you for listening!Season 5 of the Code Story podcast will be starting in the next couple of weeks.Support this ...
The Inventive Journey
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Originally posted at this link:https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/episodes/Surround-Yourself-With-Good-People-The-Inventive-Journey-Podcast-For-E...
S4 E21: Ofer Shaked, SCADAFence
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ofer Shaked started in on computers early. He was passionate about tech from a very early age, and started programming when he was 10 years old. He lo...
Aggie Growth Hacks w/ Noah Labhart
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Originally posted at this link: https://www.aggiegrowthhacks.com/season-3-episode-2-changing-the-equation-for-manufacturing-w-founder-cto-noah-labhart...
S4 E20: Paul Biggar, Dark
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Biggar was born in Dublin, Ireland, and lived there most of his life. When he was young, his Dad had a couple of computers, where Paul could prog...
S4 Bonus: Erik Chelstad, Observa
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Chelstad is a child of both coasts. In his life, he spent a lot of time skiing, and carried that activity into his adult life. Funny enough thoug...
S4 E19: Daniel Gallancy, Atakama
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Gallancy is a husband and father to an 18 month old son. He studied electrical engineering and physics in school, but ended up working in finan...
S4 Bonus: Erik Fogg, ProdPerfect
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Fogg attended MIT, but failed his intro to computer science classes. It was at that point, that he punted over to mechanical engineering. So as y...
S4 E18: Lior Sion, Bringg
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lior Sion has been doing tech for 30 years, since he was in High School. He is married with 2 amazing and a dog (a Vizsla to be specific), and is in h...
S4 Bonus: Justin Mitchell, Yac
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Mitchell started off wanting to be an actor, dreaming of going off to work for Disney or doing movies. He loved being on the stage, playing spo...
S4 E17: Matt DeBergalis, Apollo GraphQL
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt DeBergalis has been into tech since he was a boy, playing games like Flight Simulator on his Commodore 64 and reviewing the schematics in the han...
S4 Bonus: Dave MacLeod, ThoughtExchange
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As an interesting turn to the guests I have on the podcast, Dave MacLeod is not a technologist by trade. He is a serial entrepreneur, and an old schoo...
S4 E16: Meetesh Karia, The Zebra
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The tech career of Meetesh Karia started early, as his father was an electrical engineer bringing home a TRS80 with a tape drive. Computers just click...
S4 Bonus: Jason Riedel, Aspireship
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Riedel was drawn to technology as a 9 year old. He knew what he wanted to do with his life, falling into the tech world - and as such, he didn&#...
S4 E15: Beerud Sheth, Gupshup
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Beerud Sheth grew up in Mumbai, India, and attended undergrad in Bombay. For graduate school, he came to the states to study at MIT, and then did a sh...
S4 Bonus: Greg Schier, Insomnia
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Schier grew up in a small town, without a lot of opportunity. He rode BMX bikes and skate boards, and spent a lot of time building ramps and jump...
S4 E14: Bryon Jacob, data.world
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bryon Jacob is a family man with 4 kids, from ages 11 down. With a young startup and family, his hobbies has suffered some, but during the pandemic, h...
The Yield Podcast by Yieldstreet
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original episode:https://the-yield.simplecast.com/episodes/reinventing-the-wheel-trends-challenges-in-fintechEpisode NotesThe evolution of FinTech has...
S4 E13: Troy Goode, Courier
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Troy Goode is based in San Francisco, with his family of 3 kids. They are 10, 8 and 2... so they are back in diapers. He finds family life super rewar...
S4 Bonus: Rens ter Weijde
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rens ter Weijde lives in Amsterdam with his 3 month old daughter, who he enjoys very much. And, he considers himself quite lucky cause his girlfriend ...
S4 E12: Richard Barkley, Cloudsnap
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Barkley is a big traveller, and has been all around the world. The first business he started doing was doing non profit work in Uganda. He is ...
S4 Bonus: Cameron Moreau, Gozova
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron Moreau grew up in DFW, more on the Dallas side of Texas. Early on in life, he thought he was going to have a career in music cause he loved it...
S4 E11: Arjun Narayan, Materialize
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Arjun Narayan grew up in India, programming as a kid. He came to America for college, thrown into the scene cold but really liked it. He studied compu...
S4 E10: Steve Caldwell, Mandolin
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Caldwell lives in Louisville, Kentucky - but grew up in South Louisiana, in cajun country. In the 90's he loved seeing things he typed on th...
S4 E9: Matt Forniciari, Gremlin
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Forniciari started his career at Amazon. First gig was on the availability team, but then he was tasked with emailing Jeff Bezo's directly ab...
S4 Bonus: Richard Mensah, EllisX
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Originally from Ghana, Richard Mensah was born into an IT family. From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family tech problems. He co...
S4 E8: Brendan & Matt, Fig
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan Falk is originally from Australia. Growing up, he was always into computers, sports, extra curricular activities - he was the kid who always h...
S4 Bonus: Jeff Meisner, Sector 5 Digital
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Meisner is an electrical engineering grad from Waterloo in Canada. Post college, he settled in to the DFW area, and worked for several tech compa...
S4 E7: Dan Robinson, Heap
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At 18 years old, Dan Robinson was 100% convinced that he was going to be a mathematician. He went to college at Stanford, and when he got there, he re...
S4 E6: Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school, teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip files he could download on...
S4 Bonus: Natalie Nagele, Wildbit
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie Nagele came to the states in 1989 as a Jewish refugee from Russia. She watched her parents go from nothing and utilizing furniture from trash,...
S4 E5: Daniel Hauschildt, Img.ly
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Hauschildt lives in Germany, in a town called Bochum. He comes from a family of craftsmen, which means that he wasn't involved in tech at a...
S4 E4: Hrishi Dixit, Yieldstreet
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hrishi Dixit was born and raised in India. He wrote his first program when he was 13 years old... and he was hooked on computers from that point forwa...
S4 E3: Davit Buniatyan, Activeloop
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Davit Buniatyan is originally from Armenia. He completed his high school years there, until he was 17, when he started to pursue his undergrad in th...
S4 E2: Charlie & Chinmay, RidePanda
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Depman grew up in Connecticut, then went to college in Canada - pursuing environmental studies. His first job out of college was to be the Asi...
Tech Talks Daily w/ Noah Labhart
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Veryable is a marketplace for on-demand labor for manufacturing and distribution, which provides businesses with higher productivity and fewer adminis...
S4 E1: Sophy Lee, HopSkipDrive
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for und...
Season 4 - Trailer
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Season 4 of the Code Story podcast is now live!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://re...
S3 Bonus: Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSS (Replay)
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Wathan has been obsessed with computers since he was a kid. In fact, he was introduced to computers by his 1st grade librarian.. and his first pr...
S3 Bonus: Leah Culver, Breaker (Replay)
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Podcasts are a great thing – the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical new...
The Entrepreneurial Coder Podcast
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to listen to the episode on the Entrepreneurial Coder podcast. Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and ...
Develomentor Podcast
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to listen to the episode on the Develomentor podcast. BiographyNoah Labhart is the CTO & Co-Founder of Veryable, and the Founder &...
S3 E20: Aaron White, Blissfully
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron White started coding when he was young, tinkering on his commodore 64 when he was sent to his room, typing in esoteric commands just to get the ...
S3 E19: Joe Howard, WP Buffs
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Howard is originally from Washington DC. He did his undergrad outside of Philly, then quickly moved back to the DC area. He's married, with a ...
S3 E18: Charity Majors, Honeycomb.io
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charity Majors didn't touch a computer until she was in college. In fact, she was raised in a religious, fundamentalist compound in rural Idaho, h...
S3 Bonus: Joe + Tony, Mythic Markets
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Mahavuthivanij was born and raised in the Bay Area, into an entrepreneurial family. Primarily through his life, he was exposed to small businesses...
S3 E17: Jeff Bermant, Cocoon MyDataRewards
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Bermant is originally from the east cost, specifically a superb of New York City called Rye. He left the big apple to head to USC in California, ...
S3 Bonus: Rob Joseph, ReadItToMe
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tech has been Rob Joseph's thing for as long as he can remember. At 4 years old, he was the only person in his household who knew how to use the T...
S3 E16: Ron Rock, Microshare
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Born and raised in Philly, Ron Rock put himself through college, working at Denny's as a midnight chef. He is a life long entrepreneur, and starte...
S3 E15: Ward Sandler, MemberSpace
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ward Sandler had a nice upbringing in New Jersey, and went to college in Hoboken, majoring in business tech. In fact, he met his co-founder there, bei...
S3 Bonus: Brendon Beebe, foreUP
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like many folks I talk to in tech, Brendon Beebe grew up in tech. He comes from a long line of programmers, and he has been building things since his ...
S3 E14: Tim Spect, Dubsmash
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Originally from Berlin Germany, Tim Specht started programming for fun, during high school. He had no plans to make a career out it - in fact, he want...
SimplyPHP w/ Noah Labhart
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the SimplyPHP Unscripted Podcast, our Co-Founder, Tony Capozzi interviews our host Noah Labhart. As you know, Noah is the Co-Founde...
S3 E13: Dean McPherson, Paperform
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dean McPherson - you guessed it... has always been interested in tech. Though unlike many of our guests, he taught himself how to code after he finish...
S3 E12: Seth Mattox, Apex Hosting
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Mattox is a 33 year old single dude with a degree in finance, living in St. Petersburg FL. Both of his parents were computer coders, so some of h...
S3 Bonus: Christopher Brown, Zabo
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Brown has always tinkered with computers, by building them and creating websites. However, he struggled through his life to figure out whi...
S3 E11: Mike Kadin, RedCircle
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Kadin is a family man, having been married for 7 years with a 2 year old (in the No phase). He studied electrical engineering, specifically chip ...
S3 E10: Nick Patrick, Radar
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Patrick has had his hands in tech for most of his life. He's been dabbling in computer programming and hardware from an early age. During col...
The Ops Show with Noah Labhart
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In their best episode yet, Noah Labhart, our host and the CTO and Co-Founder of Veryable Ops, shared his CTO journey, his 5-year stack evolution, and ...
S3 E9: Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSS
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Wathan has been obsessed with computers since he was a kid. In fact, he was introduced to computers by his 1st grade librarian.. and his first pr...
WPRRR Podcast with Noah Labhart
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Super fun chat with a very cool dude, Joe Howard - Host of WPMRR and Founder & CEO of WP Buffs.[00:01:17] Who is Noah Labhart?[00:02:52] Have you ...
S3 E8: Jane Portman, Userlist
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Originally from Russia, Jane Portman gained experience as a creative director for an agency. She has been involved in tech as a designer for 16 years,...
S3 Bonus: Tony Chan, Cloudforecast
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Born and raised in Chicago, Tony Chan grew up in the Southside, a blue collar neighborhood. He was heavily influenced by hid Dad, who was a first gene...
S3 E7: Kimeshan Naidoo, Unibuddy
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kimeshan Naidoo grew up in a small sugar can farming town, on the east coast of South Africa. At 12 years old, he found an old python book, installed ...
Coffee and Coding Podcast
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, I had an awesome chat with Rob of the Coffee & Coding podcast - the App Developer's Handbook. In this episode we discuss:How I got s...
S3 E6: Elias Torres, Drift
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A first generation LatinX immigrant, Elias Torres was born in Nicaragua. Growing up in a communist country, he had little resources, even food. Thirty...
S3 Bonus: Peter Voss, AIGO
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Voss fell in love with software after starting a hardware design company. He moved to America 25 years ago, and rapidly connected with interesti...
S3 E5: Dan Burcaw, Nami ML
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tech and entrepreneurship has always been super intertwined in Dan Burcaw's life - through his family, and starting to tinker with computers in th...
Mentoring Developers with Noah Labhart
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I recently had the opportunity to chat with Arsalan on the Mentoring Developers podcast, to talk about wearing many hats, transitioning from developer...
S3 E4: Yoshi Yokokawa, Alpaca
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Born and raised in Japan, Yoshi Yokokawa started his career at Leimen Brothers in the US. In doing so, he was exposed to the fragility of the economie...
S3 Bonus: Shawn Frayne, Looking Glass Factory
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Frayne grew up dreaming of being an inventor. His heroes were the inventors of yore, like Thomas Edison and Tesla. Growing up, he was inspired b...
S3 E3: Mark Hendriks, Wild Ventures
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Hendriks has been a product designer for 11 years. His family and he love to travel, see the world and visit national parks. He currently live in...
S3 E2: Dave Zohrob, Chartable
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Zohrob has been coding since before he can remember. He is among the crews where their Dad's bought TRS-80's hooked up to the TV and load...
S3 Bonus: Andrew Smith, Outrider
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Smith grew up playing in the woods of northern New England. In 6th grade, he was given a car and drivers magazine and fell in love with Ferrari...
S3 E1: Cole Raven, Podchaser
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cole Raven has spent many years in Indiana. Immediately out of college, he started a business that failed quickly - but early on, he knew he wanted to...